{"id":222223,"date":"2019-07-09T19:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T23:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222223"},"modified":"2019-07-09T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T23:50:14","slug":"duterte-set-to-fire-4-more-customs-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/09\/duterte-set-to-fire-4-more-customs-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte set to fire 4 more Customs officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_219757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219757\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/R.Duterte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219757\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/R.Duterte.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/R.Duterte.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/R.Duterte-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte delivers his speech following the oath-taking ceremony of his son, Vice Mayor Sebastian Duterte, at the Sangguniang Panlungsod in Davao City on June 21, 2019. JOEY DALUMPINES\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Frustrated by the rampant corruption within the agency, President Rodrigo Duterte said he is set to fire at least four officials of the Bureau of Customs (BOC).<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHindi pa hinto itong<\/em>\u00a0corruption.\u00a0<em>May apat pa<\/em>\u00a0(Corruption has not stopped yet. There are four more). In this week, Customs\u00a0<em>na naman. Ubusin ko talaga &#8216;yan<\/em>\u00a0(it\u2019s Customs. I\u2019ll finish them off),\u201d Duterte said in his speech in Malaca\u00f1an Palace on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Sabi nila hindi ma-<\/em>control\u00a0<em>ang<\/em>\u00a0corruption.\u00a0<em>Eh tignan natin<\/em>(They say that corruption cannot be controlled. Then we\u2019ll see),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Duterte warned that he would replace all Customs employees with military personnel after billions worth of shabu slipped past the agency.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Jagger\u2019 has PRRD\u2019s trust<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, however, said Commissioner Rey Leonardo \u201cJagger\u201d Guerrero still enjoys the Chief Executive\u2019s trust and confidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think so because he (the President) has not mentioned anything about him (Guerrero),\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing when asked if Duterte still trusted the BOC chief.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo, however, said he has no knowledge of who Duterte will be sacking from the agency.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWala siyang binanggit.<\/em>\u00a0<em>General iyong pagkakasabi niya kagabi<\/em>\u00a0(He has not mentioned anything yet. He spoke on general terms),\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero, a retired military chief, is the third Customs commissioner in the three years Duterte has been in office.<\/p>\n<p>Before Guerrero, retired police general Isidro \u201cSid\u201d Lape\u00f1a and Marine officer Nicanor Faeldon were also named BOC chief but were reassigned due to separate shabu shipment scandals.<\/p>\n<p>Lape\u00f1a is now Technical Education and Skills Development Authority chief while Faeldon is now Bureau of Corrections chief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Frustrated by the rampant corruption within the agency, President Rodrigo Duterte said he is set to fire at least &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":219757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222224,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222223\/revisions\/222224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}